About Dakota
Dakota Seale is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Texas with ten years of experience. He works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, relationship concerns, and ADHD. Dakota focuses on practical steps people can use right away, and he keeps sessions straightforward and respectful.
He starts by listening to what matters most to each person. Sessions aim to identify goals and small changes that fit day-to-day life. Dakota often blends goal-focused strategies with attention to how attachment and values shape choices.
Background and approach
His approach includes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people live by their values, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address unhelpful thinking and behavior, and Attachment-Based ideas to improve how people relate to others. He also uses client-centered and dialectical skills when they suit a person's needs. Dakota offers sessions in both English and Spanish.
He provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different schedules and preferences. Costs vary with location and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling.
Dakota emphasizes collaboration and practical tools so clients can leave with clear next steps. The focus is on steady progress rather than quick fixes.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when feelings are difficult. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions by focusing on action rather than getting stuck in unhelpful thoughts.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying patterns of thinking and behavior that get in the way, then testing and changing them with concrete exercises. That method can help with anxiety, low mood, and problems that show up in daily routines.
Dakota approaches the choice of methods collaboratively. He will listen to a person’s goals, try an approach that fits, and adjust based on what helps. Finding the right mix of techniques is part of the process rather than a one-time decision.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different needs. Video calls let people use visual cues and hold longer sessions, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quick way to check in during a busy day, and text-based messaging supports brief updates or homework between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and other commitments while keeping the focus on practical steps and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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